Sentence examples for obvious abilities from inspiring English sources

If that's less than we might still hope for from someone with his obvious abilities, it's also far more than we have any right to expect.

You could blame Bonds for genetic good luck, but don't demean his obvious abilities by suggesting that they were a chemically induced mirage.

Despite his obvious abilities, however, Ayer could not secure a permanent teaching position at Oxford a fact that increased his hostility toward the philosophical establishment there.

It sounds like pop music made by someone who feels pop music is beneath him, deliberately crowding out his obvious abilities with stupid voices and noises, layering on the irony to mask his own insecurities about what he does.

During his tenure as England coach, Fletcher was never afraid to pick out players he believed had something beyond obvious abilities with bat and ball – Marcus Trescothick provides the prime example.

Most of the choices in this 10 of the best were selected from within the realms of rock, often at its most straightforward, because despite his obvious abilities, acerbic rock'n'roll is what Elvis Costello does best (whether he likes it or not).

"He is a young, fit man of obvious ability.

In Rain Men, he appears as "an all-rounder of little obvious ability but frightening determination".

For all his speed and obvious ability, sportswriters sometimes questioned why Davis was not even better.

The only quick and sure way to improve school performance is to select pupils by obvious ability.

That is not to deny the appeal of a player of  obvious ability who attacks with pace down the right.